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Just wondering, what is the most expensive model in points that you have come up against or have? (No Apocalypse stuff)

In terms of points-to-power ratio?

Either Necron Lychguard or Sister of Battle Celestians.

Celestians pay an extra 4 points/model for an extra attack and the ability to be taken in squads of 5, have a close combat special ability that makes them just as effective as an Assault Marine (who is 1 point cheaper) only more fragile and with no melee weapon options.

5 Lychguard are 200 points without any wargear and die like flies to AP3.

i play orks... but id say nob bikers. rather expensive yet a killy glasscannon.

phatonic wrote:
i play orks... but id say nob bikers. rather expensive yet a killy glasscannon.

I've never heard anyone call nob bikers a glass cannon. Those things are fething tough.

T5 W2 4+ cover save is not the attributes of a glass cannon.

30 Death Company with jump packs and dual thunder hammers. ~2550 pts.

 Griddlelol wrote:

phatonic wrote:
i play orks... but id say nob bikers. rather expensive yet a killy glasscannon.

I've never heard anyone call nob bikers a glass cannon. Those things are fething tough.

T5 W2 4+ cover save is not the attributes of a glass cannon.

well against str 10 barrage stuff they tend to die a four cover save isnt enough for instant death tough the warboss carries on.

The highest points cost models I've had on the table are Calgar at 265 points, and LRC with Blessed Hull + Dozer Blade at... 295 points IIRC.

As a spectator saw a 350-point Daemon Prince shortly after the new Codex was released. It proceeded to kill something like 6 terminators, 10+ footslogging Death Company, 5 jump pack DC, Astorath, Reclusiarch (with all DC + both HQs getting to charge it), Lasplas Razorback, and LS Typhoon. Iron Arm is friggin' off the charts for survivability.

Dp's in the new daemon book, can cost a large sum of pts ( I was using a couple that cost around 340pts each) but they dish out some mean damage while having some good survivability and utility.

I faced a 350 point deacon prince. I killed it turn 1 after it killed 4 gants. I believe that is the definition of a points sink.

Worst I saw was Khan with a fully tricked out SM command squad That due to bad reserve rolls managed to sit out all but the last turn of the game.

515 points for a 5-man Deathwing Knight Squad in a Land Raider as a dedicated transport. That has to be up there!

Faced a Necron unit
Nemezor Zanhdrek
Varguard Obyron
Overlord with 2+, 3++, MSS, Orb, Warscythe
2 Crypteks with Chronometron
5 Lords with 2+ Warscythes, MSS (75 pts each)

The unit was above 800 pts and ate a 10-man IG Squad a turn starting from turn 2 (fed them a squad at a time) until I managed to finish them off with a continuous barrage of Demolishers and beast-Hunter shells

Marneus Calgar and 5 Terminators in an outflanking crusader.

I have 5 TH/SS Termies in a LRC/R with the upgrades, including a chaplain. Final cost: 550+ easily.

Played against a Farsight Bomb in a 1500 pt tournament. Not sure how much it cost altogether, but the rest of the army consisted of only 2x6 Firewarriors and 2 Broadsides. So... a lot?

The 3x Tz. Herald + 20 Pink Horror squad I'm currently running costs me 555, which is twice as expensive as any unit I've ever run. Not sure if it's a point sink or not yet, but at the very least it's fun.

Eldercaveman wrote:
I faced a 350 point deacon prince.

Did he have a white collar?

For grins, I ran Lysander and a bunch of storm shield terminators in a Land Raider crusader in a 5th edition game. It didn't make it's points back. It became a game of keep away from the clown car.

 ImRightBehindYou wrote:
30 Death Company with jump packs and dual thunder hammers. ~2550 pts.

I find it hard to believe anyone would actually do this and model them correctly.


I can't recall the worst points sink I've seen, but I see a fair amount of excessive "killy" HQs end up amounting to nothing on the battlefield. I've done that as well myself...

An expensive unit of limited effectiveness would probably be a full stealthsuit squad, each member with 2 marker drones

While I rather like burst cannon, the additional 360 points of marker drone would probably not find too much use

A fully kitted out 9 man squad of tyranid warriors. Lash whips and swords deathspitters toxin sacs glands = around 550. They never made it past turn two

Add in a prime and it's another 150

Right now i think my biggest point sink would be my Defilers.

Expensive and (on paper at least) tough. In practice though - always dead by end of turn 2.


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 ImRightBehindYou wrote:
30 Death Company with jump packs and dual thunder hammers. ~2550 pts.

They are expensive but that squad alone will probably win you the game. Death Company are insanely nasty. Especially if you do what my friend does and thrown in a Sanguinary priest for FNP with every....single....squad. Nightmare.

Fully equipped GM and a beefed up squad of paladins (banner stave) comes in at about 955 for 1 units and a hq!
Or a massive Farsight blob can run into come crazy points

 Messy0 wrote:
Fully equipped GM and a beefed up squad of paladins (banner stave) comes in at about 955 for 1 units and a hq!
Or a massive Farsight blob can run into come crazy points

Draigo and Friends don't really qualify as a point sink as they bounce small arms fire like its nothing and can wipe the floor with most units in melee effortlessly.

I have a unit of 10 chaos terminators for my World Eaters that comes to 553 points. They rarely see table time though.

 Flinty wrote:
An expensive unit of limited effectiveness would probably be a full stealthsuit squad, each member with 2 marker drones

While I rather like burst cannon, the additional 360 points of marker drone would probably not find too much use

As a Tau man - I would find this HILARIOUS!!!! If I tabled that - you better keep EVERY squad out of their range...cause whatever it shoots will die or kiss dirt like a lover by the end of my shooting phase...lol

Now - if we are asking aboutn a true point sink - where the amount of points you pay =/= points that they will kill....

The lychguard from above is prob the worst I have seen. Or a fully kitted out truck carrying 10 boys....that truck aint gonna do anything but es-plode

10 wraithguard, with a spiritseer, Eldrad, a farseer and Karandras.

1000pts give or take. 12" range.

Daemon Princes are certainly up there, depending on how you run them. Daemon Prince of Nurgle with Psychic Mastery 2, Armor, Wings, and a Black Mace? That's a huge chunk of points that can be wasted in one shot by an S10 weapon, since they don't have Eternal Warrior.

I'd also like to say Thousand Sons. Expensive as hell, and all they really get is an AP3 bolter and a 4++ save, as well as the debuff of SaP. Good, but meh.

 xSPYXEx wrote:
Daemon Princes are certainly up there, depending on how you run them. Daemon Prince of Nurgle with Psychic Mastery 2, Armor, Wings, and a Black Mace? That's a huge chunk of points that can be wasted in one shot by an S10 weapon, since they don't have Eternal Warrior.

I'd also like to say Thousand Sons. Expensive as hell, and all they really get is an AP3 bolter and a 4++ save, as well as the debuff of SaP. Good, but meh.

Wouldn't a Nurgle DP be T6? An therefore immune to ID by virtue of never being hit by a double toughness shot?

Daemon of Nurgle isn't Mark of Nurgle.

I one time had a 1200pt Space Wolves Terminator Deathstar... which proceeded to get blown off the table by a Voidstrike Missile.

To be fair, the guy we played against cheated and said that his regular Deathstrike Missile Launcher was the Voidstrike, so we ended up wasting all our firepower on the wrong gun. Oh well, despite that massive handicap, we still managed to tie the game.

Either Honor Guard or Vanguard Veterans both get mind-numbingly expensive when you start kitting them out.